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Acres For Elephants
The Acres for Elephants campaign goal is to raise the funds to cover the debt owed for the purchase of 2500 acres of additional land for the elephants. In June, 2000, as a result of this campaign, 110 acres were purchased, doubling the elephants' then-current habitat. Thanks to the Acres For Elephants campaign, that land was paid in full.
In 2002 another 700 acres was purchased (referred to as the Lake Land as it hosts the most magnificent 25-acre, spring-fed lake.) Later in 2003 the remaining land was purchased—1800 acres which previously had been owned by a paper company. Nearly half of the timber had already been cut prior to the Sanctuary's purchase, but those areas will be converted into pastures for the elephants.
The elephants now have a 2700-acre natural-habitat preserve in which to live their lives. Now we have to raise the funds to pay for it.
The Acres for Elephants campaign goal is to raise the funds to cover the debt owed for the purchase of 2500 acres of additional land for the elephants. In June, 2000, as a result of this campaign, 110 acres were purchased, doubling the elephants' then-current habitat. Thanks to the Acres For Elephants campaign, that land was paid in full.
In 2002 another 700 acres was purchased (referred to as the Lake Land as it hosts the most magnificent 25-acre, spring-fed lake.) Later in 2003 the remaining land was purchased—1800 acres which previously had been owned by a paper company. Nearly half of the timber had already been cut prior to the Sanctuary's purchase, but those areas will be converted into pastures for the elephants.
The elephants now have a 2700-acre natural-habitat preserve in which to live their lives. Now we have to raise the funds to pay for it.
